Where is the largest US military base outside of the United States?

MrsAce

Never heard of it, could this be it? Diego Garcia, or 7 00 S, 71 30 E as it is named by the United States Navy, is in the Southern Hemisphere. A place of natural beauty inhabited for hundreds of years by a people living by means of fishing and the extraction of oil from the copra or coconuts until their eviction, the island has been transformed into a globally strategic military naval compound. The island, which stretches 34 miles from end to end with a harbour entrance opening to the North-Northwest, is termed an atoll with an actual landmass encompassing only 6,720 acres. The 40 miles of shoreline encloses a lagoon 6.5 miles wide and 13 miles long. This small dot on the map has been transformed into the largest military base outside of the US. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/sep2003/dieg-s15.shtml Aug 04 05, 5:06 PM

author

I don't think this is the largest US overseas base. I think it is the Ramstein Air Base in Germany. Aug 04 05, 6:29 PM

MrsAce

I had also thought the answer would lead to Germany. Will keep looking. Aug 05 05, 3:36 AM